...this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of'-death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last, of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers • Have swept the lines where beauty lingers) And marked the mild angelic...

...finished, than any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled...nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; ( Before Decay's effacing fingers I lave swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic...

...finished, than any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere, the first day of death is fled;"...nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers;) And mark'd the mild angelic air...

...audience, and of the grotesque declamation and gestures of the Turkish story-teller. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled...nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air—...

...refrain from quoting the following highly wrought and characteristic specimen. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled...nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fmgers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air...

...FORT FOLIO. Receives him by the lovely light That bent becomes an eastern night. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled;...nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers) And mark'd the mild angelic air...

...night-prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay.! i>. 3. V<», X. Tt ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled...nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, ) And mark'd the mild.angelic air...

...an instance of the extended simile in which this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled...nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers) And marked the mild angelic air...

...65 So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants, that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 10 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...

...now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first dav of death is fled: The first dark day of nothingness, The last of dangeY and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept tlie lines where beauty lingers;)...